Funny / A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

[Highly accurate dinosaur sounds]

• Everything Sunny says with her baby noises is subtitled.
  • On their current alleged guardian, Aunt Josephine:
    Sunny: Someone's been to Crazytown.
  • Once we get to see just how paranoid Josephine is:
    Sunny: She's the mayor of Crazytown!
  • When Sunny apparently bites Olaf:
    Sunny: Back off, parrot face!
    Olaf gasps
    Sunny: I'll bite higher!
    Olaf: Menge-nenge!
    Sunny: Don't mock me!
    Olaf: Mini kiki! Akana he hanaka hatananewa akana!
    Sunny: Whoa, you are nuts.
  • The real kicker was the one time she actually spoke, when Josephine clarified that her late husband didn't die in a fire, but was rather eaten by leeches. Klaus and Violet can only look at each other in befuddled silence, while Sunny sums it all up with a skeptical, "... Okay."
• Violet and Klaus' rather goofy expressions before opening the door to find Olaf as Stephano.
• The part where Count Olaf stops his car on the grade crossing in front of the convenience store, while rather scary, has this funny bit (for some context, a Running Gag of Count Olaf's is to "mistake" Sunny for a monkey):
  Count Olaf: [points to. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny respectively] Soda. Soda. Banana.
  Sunny: [subtitled] Bite me.
  Count Olaf: [grits teeth] Got it. [gets out and locks the doors, then goes into the store]
  • Afterwards, there's the fact that when the orphans manage to throw the switch to divert the train to the other track, Olaf starts laughing madly, but as the train roars by leaving the car unharmed, his laugh suddenly changes into one that sounds like "Huh?", which is pretty freaky sounding!
  • When Olaf's plan fails, Mr. Poe comes driving up behind the car. He's initially irritated someone is in the way... then Sunny pops out from the driver's side window, blows a kiss at him, and starts laughing. Also funny is that Mr. Poe's belief this means Sunny was driving the car is the only time in the film he gets mad and openly rebukes Count Olaf... even when Olaf is telling the truth in that he's mistaken about what's going on.
• Count Olaf shaking himself like a dog.
  • "Let's go back to prehistoric times, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth!" and then his over the top impression of a T-Rex, especially when he pretends to nibble on the bald guy's head.
    • Even funnier is the deleted scene in which Olaf keeps it going and licks the ear of one of his troupe. When the director calls for a cut, the guy complains, saying, "He licked my ear..."
  • He has a little piece he likes to call the Electric Chair: [beat]
    Count Olaf: [Southern accent] I think ya' might have to turn it up! Is anybody OUT THERE?!?!?!?!
  • A deleted scene between Olaf and the Person of Indeterminate Gender exists. While cut for understandable reasons, it's also Jim Carrey in-character as Olaf making Craig Ferguson break and bust up laughing.
    Olaf: Liza is within you. The answer "Liza" within you.
• "I am, uh, Stefano. I am an Italian man."
  • To make things even funnier, he sounds oddly like Heath Ledger's Joker.
  • It turns out Monty already had an assistant, Gustaf, but he fell sick and had to be replaced. "Stefano" sympathizes:
  "Stefano": He'd give anything to be here right now...
  (Cut to Gustaf, tied to the front of a train and screaming.)
• When the children first learn they're being sent to live with Count Olaf, Mr. Poe explains that their parents' will stated that they were to be put in the care of their closest living relative. Olaf was chosen because he lived the closest distance away from their house.
  Klaus: I don't think that's what "closest" is supposed to mean.
  Violet: We don't know a Count Olaf.
  Mr. Poe: Yes, yes, of course you do. He's either your third cousin four times removed or your fourth cousin three times removed.
  Sunny: [subtitled] Someone's brain's been removed!
• "Now would be an excellent time to get up and walk out of the theater, living room, or airplane where this film is being shown." Would you have walked out of the plane to avoid watching the movie?
• The sequence at the beginning with The Littlest Elf. Doubles as an awesome Mythology Gag for those who have read the books.
• In a deleted scene:
  Olaf: My kingdom for a- [sees one of his henchmen walk out in a horse costume instead of Klaus] HOLY CRAP!
• The director/real Lemony Snicket commentary. Snicket/Handler insists he was tricked into coming, becomes distraught upon seeing that the film is not about "The Littlest Elf" and begins to play the accordion to block out the sounds of a leech attack.
• Olaf having to look at his hands where the children are drawn and their names are labeled (well, only Violet and Klaus anyway. Sonny's sketch just has the word "whatever" in place of her name.)
• Olaf dramatically warns the orphans to never enter the mysterious tower. And than turns around, and snickers to himself.
• Aunt Josephine being less than helpful while the boat's being attacked by leeches. Somehow made funnier in that while Klaus is trying to paddle and Violet is trying to empty the water out of the boat, she's sitting there, clinging to Sunny in her lap.
  Aunt Josephine: (wailing) We're sinking, sinking, sinking! Doomed. Doomed.
  Violet: (offscreen) Aunt Josephine, that is not helping.
• Similar to the above, during the bit when Olaf locks the kids in the car, Violet and Klaus desperately try to get out, while an untroubled Sunny lounges in the backseat.
• The Running Gag of Olaf thinking Sunny is a monkey.
  Olaf: I chose to open my heart to you two loverly children... and your hideous primate.
• Count Olaf warning the audience: "This next scene could get pretty graphic," before hacking away at the bald dummy onstage.
• The Hook-handed man calling Olaf (who is onstage) by walkie-talkie after Klaus knocks him out the tower. When Olaf looks up, he sees his minion hanging from Sunny's cage by one hook, waving. "Hi."
• In a deleted scene where Olaf's troupe is watching TV:
  Person of Indeterminate Gender: (looks over at the Bald Man, who is crying his eyes out) It's a commercial.
  Bald Man: It's a good commercial!
  PIG: ... It's for razors...